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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicBudget 2018

Topic: Budget 2018

Budget announces Rs 1 lakh crore new funding mechanism for higher education institutes

Scraps grants-in-aid, asks higher education institutes like IITs, IIMs NITs to take soft loans and pay 25 per cent principal.

The Modi govt shouldn’t lose its nerve and take any rash actions in this year’s Budget

Biz people and industrialists, who have been the most critical about the Modi govt privately, will settle for predictability instead of any tax bonanzas.

This Budget is for voters, but the speech must be for business

The business community is hungry for clarity on the new set of significant economic reforms the Modi government plans to tackle.

Talk Point: Can the Modi government undertake critical economic reforms in the little time it has left?

The Economic Survey was tabled in parliament today and comprehensively analyses the current economic situation in India. Experts weigh in.

To be or not to be populist? Modi government faces dilemma in crucial final Budget

PM insists it will be a non-populist Budget; experts also feel this govt has shown willingness to buck past trends and concentrate on fiscal deficit targets.

What RSS bodies want from budget: Jobs, higher MSP & sops for small enterprises

Swadeshi Jagran Manch and Bharatiya Kisan Sangh write to Finance Ministry, suggesting various measures to combat unemployment and farmer distress.

Modi govt’s last full budget: Health, agriculture, education to get boost

One of the major moves could be a national scheme to extend medical insurance worth Rs 5 lakh each to over 20 crore people.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?